Jan 26, 2015

News Flash!The
cast of Downton Abbey wins the SAG Award for best acting.Howzat?The announcement was made the same night History Channel debuted “Sons
of Liberty” which is all about taxation without representation.Well, I’ve got news for you SAG members.Your tax dollars are going to pay for the
salaries of the non-SAG actors, writers, directors and crew of Downton.What?Do you think that the UK’s Carnival Film and Television lets PBS
broadcast it for free?

This has outraged me for years.Every dollar of the PBS budget should be
spent on American production in America.But my dear SAG members, not only do they take your tax dollars to pay
UK talent, every evening they ask you to donate more.Hugh Bonneville gets a job and you get a tote
bag.

Jan 17, 2015

Following is my humble suggestion for how Joni Ernst should begin her reply to President Obama's State of the Union speech.

On behalf of the Republican Party, I want to thank you, my
fellow Americans, for voting this November and for voting to give our party
majorities in both the House and Senate.We thank you for the victories but more importantly we thank you for the
trust that you have placed in our policies and our ability to see them
through.

The most important opinion on the state of the union is not
the President’s.It isn’t even
mine.It is yours.And you have made that opinion very clear.

You do not want a health insurance system that is even more
complicated and less responsive than it was before.You don’t want an immigration system that
punishes the lawful and rewards the lawless.You don’t want to see more and more people leave the job market and hear
the administration call that an accomplishment.

You want a government that won’t try to deceive or mislead
you because the consultants and the czars in Washington think you don’t know
what’s best for you.You want to work and
travel with the confidence that our country is secure from those who would do
us harm.You want to know that our
military is properly equipped and responsibly deployed.And when an American is wounded, you want to
see that soldier receive respect and the highest level of care.

Sadly, in the last six years, you saw things happen in this
country and in Washington that made you decide you wanted to go in another
direction.So let me tell you how we
think we can all get there…

Jan 9, 2015

The week started out with Harvard professors complaining about their ineluctable deductibles so I wrote a poem about that. Then there was the horror in Paris so I thought I couldn't go on the air with a funny poem. I wrote a poem about that. Then there was a voice (or maybe voices) that said the cartoonists brought this on themselves by provoking the terrorists. Well, every self-respecting, world-respecting weekly radio poet has to write a poem about that. And in the midst of all this, our President announces a major policy goal. Really?